Slave names

[Jim Parish]

Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>   There's a minstrel song involving "Pompey Squash." Can't think of any
> other "Pompeys." Haven't checked _Gone with the Wind_.

In the film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", Tom Doniphan (John
Wayne's character, and I'm not sure of the spelling) had a black
manservant named Pompey; I get the feeling that Pompey had been
Doniphan's slave before the Civil War, but I don't know whether that's
supported in text.

Jim Parish

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